Resignation and Arrest Shocks Collateral Loan Firm
William Cobb former president of the Collateral Loan Company is arrested as directors face shortages totaling at least 114000. The case centers on forged or diverted loans, with searches for missing notes and possible book-keeping fraud. Associated figures include Charles P. Curtis Joseph P. Kennedy John F. Moors and John Abbott. The inquiry probes the 25 000 note used as security and potential repeated transfers linking Cobb Oram and Cobb.
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Lavelle
Charles P. Curtis
Joseph P. Kennedy
Boston
John F. Moors
John Abbott
George R. Jewett
William Cobb
Oram
District Attorney's Office
Cobb
Collateral Loan Company
Walnut Street
Beacon Hill
New York
Francis D
Katherine Sedgwick (Dewey) Cobb
Barnstable Village
Cape Cod
Roxbury Latin School
Hale’s School
Harvard College
Boston University Law School
State Street
Remarkable confrontation at Pemberton Square ends with Cobb arrest
After a meeting at their offices, Cobb faced Mrs LeClaire at Pemberton Square where he claimed to give her stock for the $10 000 loan she denies seeing. Captain Armstrong and inspectors produced LeClaire and arrested Cobb. LeClaire a Christian Science healer based at 4 Boylston Street is a key witness in the case. Police investigate seven to eight clerks tied to pledges and books and a reported 28000 leakage, with Cobb and his father blaming clerks for theft.
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Pemberton Square
Cobb
Boston
William Cobb
Francis D. Cobb
System Long Planned Theft At Collateral Loan Firm
A former director describes a premeditated scheme at a collateral loan company where inside and outside participants colluded to loot. Appraisers allegedly overvalue items, advance cash, and split proceeds while hiding losses through faulty bookkeeping and delayed public auctions.
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Collateral Loan Company
Mrs Hall Clarifies Role At Collateral Loan Co
Mrs. Helen Hall, widow of Collateral Loan Co acting president and cashier George E Hall, explains she handles no funds while the teller manages money. She resides at 83 Coldberg Avenue Roslindale and says detectives should determine the facts after questions arose about the bank staff.
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George E. Hall
Collateral Loan Company
Cobb
Coldberg Avenue
Roslindale
Post
Hall
Mr. Hall
The Way of These Women Opens a New Oppenheim Tale
Lord Lakenham travels to Annerley Court for a house party where Sybil Cluley and Mary Cluley arrive. Sir Jermyn, a famed playwright, declares love and asks Sybil to marry him, while Lucille de Savers plots and watches the evolving romance in a palace of manners and intrigue.
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Henry Aynesworth
Marquis of
Lakenham
London
Annerley Court
Lord Lakenhaim
Sir Jermyn
Mary Cluley
Sybil Cluley
Imperial Theatre
Lucille
Duchess de Savers
Sybil
Promie
Mary
Aynesworth
Ba Xenham
Jermyn
England
Miss Cluley
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Richard Field
Fitzgerald
Field
C. F. Hovey Company
Ireland
Switzerland
Company
Mrs. Hall
Cape Street
Russia
Oppenheim
By E. Phillips Oppenheim
Sunday Post
Lord Lakenlam
Lakenhara
Green Room
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